Cartoons and Cartoonists

News about Cartoons and Cartoonists, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

May. 20, 2015

French cartoonist Renald Luzier, known as Luz, is leaving satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, saying he is overwhelmed by grief and pressure; he drew cover of crying Prophet Muhammad for first issue after Paris terrorist attacks. MORE

May. 6, 2015

Counterterrorism teams are searching social media postings for any possible ties between two gunmen killed by a police officer in Garland, Tex, during an attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest, and Islamic State extremists in Syria; one of the gunmen, Elton Simpson, had posted on Twitter in weeks before attack, trading calls for violence with ISIS fighters and self-declared foes of cartoon contest organizer Pamela Geller. MORE

May. 5, 2015

Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland, Tex, that exploded in violence was organized by Pamela Geller, New York blogger and activist hailed by her supporters as a patriot and condemned by her critics as an anti-Muslim bigot; Geller says cartoon competition was held in honor of Charlie Hebdo, French newspaper attacked by Muslim extremists for its caricatures of Muhammad. MORE

Apr. 29, 2015

Muhammad “no longer interests me,” Rénald Luzier, who works under the name Luz, said in an interview. MORE

Apr. 19, 2015

Ross Douthat Op-Ed column uses critical comments made by cartoonist Gary Trudeau about cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo to underscore disturbing trend in left-leaning circles toward dangerous oversimplification of hierarchies of power and victimhood. MORE

Mar. 11, 2015

Library of Congress exhibition opening March 21 will showcase political cartoons by Herbert L Block and other cartoonists. MORE

Feb. 4, 2015

Feb. 3, 2015

Cartoonist Scott McCloud, who has spent years in scholarly study of comics as art form, returns as author with hefty graphic novel The Sculptor. MORE

Feb. 1, 2015

At least eight people are wounded when Afghan police open fire on demonstrators in Kabul who were protesting French newspaper Charlie Hebdo's publication of cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad. MORE

Jan. 31, 2015

Annual Angouleme comics festival takes place in France under shadow of massacre at offices of satiric magazine Charlie Hebdo; security is heightened and special prize is awarded posthumously to victims of attack. MORE

Jan. 11, 2015

Brian McFadden The Strip comic offers examples of reasonable reactions to offensive cartoons, in light of attack on Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper in Paris. MORE

Jan. 11, 2015

Op-Ed article by author Tim Kreider confesses not being able to comprehend how piece of art or cartoon could inspire someone to take up arms, a testament to how there are cultures where art still has real and volatile power, unlike in the United States; suggests that attack on Charlie Hebdo is reminder that art can still be alive and dangerous and hated and feared. MORE

Jan. 10, 2015

Terrorist attack at offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo stirs debate among cartoonists over limits of free speech, cultural sensitivity, and responsible action. MORE

Jan. 4, 2015

Turkish Pres Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been cracking down on editorial cartoonists, long a staple of Turkish politics; cartoonist Musa Kart, who has a history of drawing cartoons critical of Erdogan, has been sued by Erdogan over his satirical drawings. MORE

Dec. 13, 2014

Indonesian police summon Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, chief editor of English-language Jakarta Post, for questioning in connection with published cartoon that depicted radical Islamists in Syria. MORE

Nov. 24, 2014

Indianapolis Star removes cartoon from its website after readers complain that drawing is racist; Jeff Taylor, newspaper's executive editor, apologizes and says paper should not have published cartoon by artist Gary Varvel for its depiction of an immigrant family ruining white family's Thanksgiving dinner. MORE

Oct. 10, 2014

Aug. 29, 2014

Ken Johnson reviews exhibition What's Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones at the Museum of the Moving Image. MORE

Aug. 24, 2014

Profile of Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and author who experienced a boom in productivity after relocating from New York City to East Hampton, NY (Metropolitan/Long Island). MORE

Jul. 13, 2014

Excerpts of conversation with Museum of Moving Image curators Barbara Miller and David Schwartz, who discuss work of cartoon pioneer Chuck Jones featured in exhibit What's Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones. MORE

Jun. 23, 2014

Media Decoder blog; Nickelodeon expands annual competition that was intended to discover new talent by offering animators chance to create an 11-minute cartoon for the network; development team will take in-person applications during Comic-Con convention in San Diego. MORE

Jun. 1, 2014

May. 23, 2014

Ken Johnson reviews exhibition of works by cartoonist Lynda Barry at Adam Baumgold gallery. MORE

Jan. 7, 2014

Judge Petrese B Tucker of United States District Court sentences Pennsylvania woman Colleen R LaRose, who used 'Jihad Jane' as an online alias, to 10 years in prison for her part in plan to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, whose images of Prophet Muhammad offended Muslims. MORE

Oct. 7, 2013

Al Jaffee, professional cartoonist best known for the three-panel fold-ins in Mad magazine, is donating many of his cartoons and other material from his personal archives to the rare book and manuscript library at Columbia University. MORE

Aug. 23, 2013

Jul. 29, 2013

Cartoon in Pakistan features female superhero the Burka Avenger, who transforms from being a demure schoolteacher into an action heroine by donning a burqa, or traditional cloak; cartoon has triggered an awkward debate about her costume, centering on whether the character's use of the burqa is subverting a traditional symbol of segregation and oppression of women or reinforcing it. MORE

Jun. 8, 2013

Saturday Profile of Khalid Albaih, cartoonist whose online work has inspired discontented youth across the Arab world. MORE

Jun. 6, 2013

Cartoonist and illustrator Peter Kuper has tried to capture his three decades in New York, and city itself, in book Drawn to New York. MORE

Jan. 30, 2013

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch apologizes for cartoon in The Sunday Times of London depicting Prime Min Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel building bloody wall trapping bodies of Palestinians. MORE

Jan. 20, 2013

Sylviane Gold reviews exhibit Cartoonists Against the Holocaust: Art in the Service of Humanity, presented by the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center at the Museum of Arts and Culture at New Rochelle High School (Metropolitan/Westchester). MORE

Nov. 4, 2012

Exhibit Political Slant: Editorial Cartoons at Hofstra University features the work of five contemporary political cartoonists (Metropolitan/Long Island). MORE

Sep. 20, 2012

French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo publishes caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, images viewed as a provocation by many Muslims and condemned by the French government as irresponsible at a time of violence across the Islamic world; France plans to close its embassies, consulates, cultural centers and schools in about 20 countries as a precautionary measure. MORE

Sep. 17, 2012

Hollywood is watching to see if smartphone apps can become hit movies and television shows; mobile start-up Outfit7 is behind Talking Friends, popular collection of 19 cartoon apps, which have about 500 million global downloads and more than 120 million active monthly users; Outfit7 is pursuing movie and TV deals based on its characters. MORE

Jun. 5, 2012

Danish court convicts four men of planning a terrorist attack in 2010 against the offices of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, sentencing them to 12 years in prison; the planned attack was intended as revenge for the newspaper's publication of 12 cartoons, many of them depicting the Prophet Muhammad. MORE

May. 21, 2012

Pakistani government blocks access to social networking service Twitter for promoting Facebook contest involving caricatures of Prophet Muhammad; restoration of service late in the evening is as sudden as its suspension earlier in the day. MORE

Apr. 25, 2012

Sports cartoonists are a dying breed and those few remaining are struggling for relevance within the marketplace; even before the contraction in the newspaper industry, editors began to view sports cartoonists as vestiges of a bygone era and as budgetary luxuries. MORE

Apr. 14, 2012

Danish court begins trial of four Swedish men accused of plotting a shooting spree in revenge for controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005. MORE

Mar. 3, 2012

Four people are arrested and charged with terrorism for allegedly planning a shooting spree at Copenhagen offices of Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which published cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in 2005. MORE

Jan. 26, 2012

Growing number of adult women are buying cosmetics collections that feature retro cartoon characters, drawn by the nostalgia and colorful packaging. MORE

Nov. 13, 2011

Journalism Prof Victor S Navasky Op-Ed article reflects on how political cartoons can incite acts of violence like the bombing of the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo after it published unflattering images of the Prophet Muhammad. MORE

Jun. 29, 2011

Joe Petruccio, a Manhattan advertising agency art director, forms community of New York Mets fans with commentary and cartoons on his blog My Mets Journal, which gets 4,000 visits a day. MORE

Apr. 11, 2011

Animation scholar Tom Klein publishes article in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal that describes how animation director Shamus Culhane secretly embedded images of modern art into Woody Woodpecker cartoons in the 1940s. MORE

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